Skidmore College - Department of English

	Phil Boshoff BA, SUNY College at Oneonta; MA, PhD, Purdue U. Publications, conference presentations, and grant work on writing across the curriculum, collaborative learning, computers and writing, English courses for academically talented youth, sports and literature, and Writing Center administration. Summer instructor in the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Currently Director of the Skidmore College Writing Center and Honors Forum. Special interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Modern British Fiction; Discourse Theory and Practice; Cross-Curricular Writing.
	Carol Batker BA, Pacific Lutheran U; PhD, U Mass Amherst. Author of Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women’s Literature and Journalism During the Progressive Era (Columbia UP, 2000); “’Love Me Like I Like To Be’: The Sexual Politics of Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the Classic Blues, and the Black Women’s Club Movement,” African American Review 32:2 (1998); contrib. to Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays, ed. Helen Jaskoski (Cambridge UP, 1996). Special interests: Recovering the Historical Activism and Literary Production of Women across Cultures in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.
	Barbara Black AB, Bryn Mawr C; MA, PhD, U of Virginia. Author of On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums (UP of Virginia, 2000). Currently at work on A Room of His Own, a cultural and literary analysis of Victorian London’s gentlemen’s clubs. Special interests: Victorian Literature and Culture; Victorian Non Fiction Prose; Cultural Studies; History and Theory of the Novel; Jane Austen; Oscar Wilde.
	Robert Boyers BA, Queens C; MA, New York U. Founder (1965) and editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Salmagundi; founder (1987) and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Author of seven books, including Atrocity and Amnesia (Oxford UP, 1985) and A Book of Common Praise (Ausable, 2002). Frequent editorials in The New Republic and other magazines. Short stories have appeared in Parnassus, Michigan Quarterly Review, etc. Special interests: Politics and Literature; Contemporary and Modernist Poetry; Film; History of Ideas; Victorian Literature and Culture.
	Victor L. Cahn AB, Columbia C; MA, PhD, New York U. Author of Beyond Absurdity: The Plays of Tom Stoppard (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1979); Gender and Power in the Plays of Harold Pinter (St. Martin’s Press, 1993); Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, and Romances (Greenwood P, 1991); The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide (Greenwood P, 2000) and other books. Author of several produced plays, including Roses in December, Fit to Kill and Embraceable Me; appeared onstage in works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Coward and Pinter. Special interests: Modern Drama; Shakespeare; Expository Writing.
	Janet Galligani Casey BA, C of the Holy Cross; PhD, U of Delaware. Author of Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine (Cambridge UP, 1998); editor of The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction (Iowa UP, 2004); currently writing on American women, rurality and modernity. NEH Fellow, 2003-04. Special Interests: Modern American Literature and Culture; Ideologies of Class and Gender; Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Leftist Literature and Working-Class Literature, especially of the Depression; Narrative Studies.
	Kathryn Davis BA, Goddard C. Recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of Labrador (Farrar, 1988), The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (Knopf, 1993), Hell (Ecco, 1998), The Walking Tour (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), and Versailles (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Has taught at Skidmore since 1988. Special interests: Literature of Exploration; Biography; Fiction Writing.
	Joanne Devine BA, Trinity C (Washington, DC); PhD, Michigan State. Co-author (with Patricia L. Carrel and David Eskey) of Second Language Reading: Theory, Research, and Practice (Cambridge UP, forthcoming). Co-editor (with Carrel and Eskey) of Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading (Cambridge UP, 1988). Chief series author of Transitions to English, a literacy program for young students from all language backgrounds with limited English proficiency (McGraw-Hill, 1990). Author of numerous articles on second language learning. Special interests: First and Second Language Acquisition; Language and Gender; Literacy; Sociolinguistics; Translation Studies; Psycholinguistics; Numeracy.
	Terence Diggory BA, Yale U; DPhil, Oxford U. Author of William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting (Princeton UP, 1991); Yeats & American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self (Princeton UP, 1983). Co-editor, with Stephen Paul Miller, of The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets (National Poetry Foundation, 2001). Numerous essays and reviews on modern poetry and visual art. Special interests: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Painting; Poetry by Women; Darwinism in Literature; Literary Theory.
	Carolyn Forché BA, Michigan State U; MFA, Bowling Green U. Author of Gathering the Tribes (Yale UP, 1976), The Country Between Us (Harper and Row, 1982), The Angel of History (HarperCollins,1994) and The Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2003). Editor, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (Norton, 1993). Translator of Claribel Alegría, Mahmoud Darwish and Robert Desnos. Awarded fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation and Lannan Foundation. Special Interests: Writing Poetry; Translation; Human Rights and Social Justice.
	Catherine J. Golden AB, Brown U; EdM, Harvard U; PhD, U of Michigan. Author of Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction (University Press of Florida, 2003). Editor of Book Illustrated: Text, Image, and Culture 1770 1930 (Oak Knoll, 2000); The MixedLegacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (with J. Zangrando; U of Delaware P, 2000); Gilman’s Unpunished (with D.Knight, Feminist Press, 1997), and The Captive Imagination (Feminist Press, 1992). Gilman Society Executive Director. At work on a sourcebook on Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” Special interests: Victorian Literature and Culture; Literature and the Visual Arts; Women and Literature; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Rhetoric and Composition; Children’s Literature.
	Sarah Webster Goodwin AB, Radcliffe C; PhD (Comparative Literature), Brown U. Author of Kitsch and Culture: The Dance of Death in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Graphic Arts (Garland, 1988); co-editor of Death and Representation (Johns Hopkins, 1991), The Scope of Words (Peter Lang, 1991) and Feminism, Utopia and Narrative (U of Tennessee P, 1989); author of articles and reviews in Novel, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and other journals and collections. Special interests: British Romanticism; Comparative Literature; Women and Literature; Literary Theory.
	Kate Greenspan BA, Skidmore C; MA, PhD (Comparative Literature), U of Massachusetts, Amherst; graduate work, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany (Medieval Studies). Author of Timetables of Women's History (Touchstone Books, 1995); co-editor So Rich A Tapestry: The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies (Bucknell UP, 1995); co-editor of the journal Studia Mystica (NSI, 1995). Special interests: Medieval Studies (British and Continental); Spiritual Biography and Autobiography; Arthurian Literature (British and Continental); Codicology and Manuscript Studies (Text and Illuminations). Linda Hall BA in Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College; MFA in Nonfiction Writing, Columbia U. Formerly staff writer for New York magazine; freelance contributor to such publications as The Hudson Review, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Spin, Sidewalk.com and Vogue. Contributor to anthology of critical essays on Cynthia Ozick forthcoming from U of Wisconsin P. Current project: The Facts on File Companion tothe American Essay. Special Interests: The Personal Essay; Literary Journalism; Literacy Education; Civil Rights; Willa Cather.
	Greg Hrbek BA, Vassar; MFA, Iowa. Lately held Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. Author of The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly (1999; Harper Perennial pb 2000). Currently at work on a new novel based on his short story “Green World,” published in Harper’s, Dec. 1999. Special interests: Fiction Writing; Film.
	Regina Janes AB, U of California, Berkeley; MA, PhD, Harvard U. Author of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Revolutions in Wonderland (Missouri, 1981); One Hundred Years of Solitude: Modes of Reading (G.K. Hall, 1991); Edmund Burke on Irish Affairs (Maunsel/Academica, 2002): Losing Our Heads: Beheadings in Literature and Culture (NYU Press, forthcoming). Philosophy Editor, Scriblerian. Articles on J.M. Coetzee, Cabrera Infante, Fuentes, Wollstonecraft, Swift, Gay have appeared in Salmagundi, JHI, ELH, Hispanófila, World Literature Today, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Representations. Special interests: Eighteenth-Century English Literature; Modern Latin American Literature; Colonialism and Imperialism; Literature and Social Change; Religion and Literature.
	Susan Kress BA, Manchester U; PhD, Cambridge U. Author of Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Feminist in a Tenured Position (UP of Virginia, 1997) and of several essays on pedagogy and women writers. Special interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Women Writers; Theories of Fiction; Biography; Literature and the Visual Arts.
	Murray Levith BA, Washington and Jefferson C; MA, U of Nebraska; PhD, Syracuse U. World Shakespeare Congress Seminar Chair, Spring 2001; "Visiting Fellow" Shakespeare Institute (Stratford-upon-Avon), Fall 2001. Author of seven books, including three on Shakespeare, most recently Shakespeare in China (Continuum). Most recent article: “Richard III: The Dragon and St. George,” Shakespeare Newsletter 53.2 (Summer 2003): 39-42. Coordinator of Teach in China Program. Special interests: Shakespeare; Renaissance Literature; Modern American Literature; Asian Literature in Translation.
	Tom Lewis BA, U of New Brunswick (Canada); MA and PhD, Columbia U. Selected publications: Letters of Hart Crane and His Family (Columbia UP, 1974), Empire of the Air (Harper Collins/Burlingame Books,1991), Divided Highways (Viking Books,1997); selected documentary films (researcher, writer, or producer): Brooklyn Bridge, The Shakers (1985), Empire of the Air (1992), and Divided Highways (1997); radio productions for National Public Radio and Public Radio International. Special interests: Biography; Modern British and American Literature (Poetry and Prose); Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture; Literature and Technology; Documentary Filmmaking; Classical Literature in Translation.
	Michael Steven Marx AB, Columbia C; MS and PhD, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Has served as director of the Skidmore Writing Center and Expository Writing Program. Currently the coordinator for Liberal Studies 1. Articles have appeared in The Writing Center Journal and Computers and Composition. Special interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Computers and Composition; Poetry; Seventeenth-Century British Literature; George Herbert; The Bible; The Adolescent in Western Literature.
	Jennifer Mason BA, Smith C; PhD, U of Texas. Author of Civilized Creatures: (Sub)Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900 (Johns Hopkins UP, forthcoming spring 2005). Special interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Feminist, Gender and Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; Sentimentality and Domesticity; Social Reform Movements; Humans’ Relationship with the Nonhuman World; Natural History and the History of Science.
	Steven Millhauser BA, Columbia U; graduate study, Brown U (1968-71). Author of ten works of fiction, including the novels Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer (Knopf/Penguin) and Martin Dressler (Crown, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction); the collection of stories The Knife Thrower (Crown); and the collection of novellas The King in the Tree (Knopf ). Currently working on a new collection of stories. Special interests: Twentieth-Century Short Story; British and American Sixteenth- Century Poetry; History of the Sonnet; The Short Story; Writing Fiction. Susannah B. Mintz BA, UC Berkeley; MFA, Columbia U; PhD, Rice U. Author of Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity (U of Delaware Press); current project, Writing the Unruly Body: Disabled Women's Autobiography. Special interests: Early modern literature and culture; Milton; Autobiography; Disability Studies; Feminist and Psychoanalytic Theory; Creative Writing, esp. Personal Essay.
	R. Parthasarathy BA and MA, Bombay U; Postgraduate Diploma in English Studies, Leeds U; PhD, U of Texas, Austin. Publications: Rough Passage: Poems, 4th printing (Oxford UP, 1989); (Ed.) Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets, 23rd printing (Oxford UP, 2000); (Tr.) The Tale of an Anklet (Columbia UP, 1993; Penguin, 2004), awarded the 1996 Association for Asian Studies Translation Prize. Directories: The Oxford Companion to Twentieth- Century Poetry in English (1994); Contemporary Writers of the English Language, vol. 1: Contemporary Poets (2001). Special interests: Non-Western Literatures (China, India, Israel, Japan); The Literatures of India; The New English Literatures (Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand); Writing Poetry; Modern and Contemporary British and American Poetry; Comparative Poetics; Epic Tradition; Translation Studies; Religious Poetry.
	Valerie Ross BA and PhD, U of California Santa Cruz, in English Literature with an emphasis in medieval, renaissance, and feminist studies. Dissertation: "The Tradition of Subversion in Medieval Vernacular Literature: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Works by Marie de France and Geoffrey Chaucer." Conference papers and articles published on both Chaucer and Marie de France. Special interests: Utopian Literature; The Works of Virginia Woolf; Poetry and Fiction by African American Women Writers; Performance Criticism.
	Phyllis Roth BA, Clark U; MA, PhD, U of Connecticut. Author of Bram Stoker (G.K. Hall, 1982) and essays on Stoker and Vladimir Nabokov. Editor of Critical Essays on Vladimir Nabokov (G.K. Hall, 1984); co-editor of The Writer's Mind: Writing as a Mode of Thinking (NCTE1983). Former Chair, English Department, former Dean of the Faculty, Acting President, and Interim President of Skidmore College. Served as member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Department of English and reviewer for PMLA, as well as numerous English Departments. Special interests: Literary Theory, esp. Feminist and Psychoanalytic; Fiction, esp. the Victorian Novel; Rhetorical Theory and the Teaching of Composition; Women’s Studies; Vladimir Nabokov, Bram Stoker, Jane Austen.
	Jacqueline Scoones BFA, Ithaca College; PhD in English with Graduate Emphasis in Women’s Studies, U of California at Irvine. Dissertation: “Dwelling Poetically: Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Fiction.” Conference papers on Cormac McCarthy, James McMichael, Graham Swift. Published and work in progress on McCarthy’s western novels. Special Interests: Post-WWII Anglo-American literature; Environmental Philosophy; Critical and Literary Theory.
	Linda Simon BA, Queens C; PhD, Brandeis U. Author of The Biography of Alice B. Toklas (Doubleday, 1977; U Nebraska P, 1991), Thornton Wilder: His World (Doubleday, 1979), Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (U Chicago P, 1999); Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray (Harcourt). Edited Gertrude Stein Remembered (U Nebraska P, 1994), William James Remembered (U Nebraska P, 1996). Also author of several college writing textbooks. Special interests: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture; Non-Fiction Creative Writing; Biography (as genre and craft); Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literary Criticism.
	Steve Stern BA, Rhodes C; MFA, U of Arkansas. Author of six works of fiction, including Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (Viking, 1986), winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction, 1987; and The Wedding Jester (Graywolf, 1999), winner of the Jewish American Fiction Award, 2000. Recently Moss Chair of Excellence in English, U of Memphis, Spring 2002. Special interests: Jewish Folklore; Yiddish Literature; Writing Fiction.
	Mason Stokes BA, U of South Carolina; MA and PhD, U of Virginia. Author of The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy (Duke UP, 2001), essays in American Quarterly and Transition, and a chapter forthcoming in Thinking Straight: New Work in Critical Heterosexuality Studies (Routledge); currently at work on Straight, No Chaser: Harlem, Heterosexuality, and the 1920s. Special interests: African American Literature and Culture; Gay and Lesbian Literature and Queer Theory; American Literature, Civil War to the present; Theories of Race and Ethnicity; History of Sexuality; Cultural Studies.
	Marc Woodworth BA, Skidmore C; MA, Ohio U. Associate Editor, Salmagundi. Assistant Director, New York State Summer Writers Institute. Author, Arcade (poems): Grove Press, 2002; Editor, Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words (Dell, 1998). Special interests: Poetry; Writing Poetry.

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